Fantastic hidden gem on freevee (via Amazon prime in the UK) - Jury Duty. Mockumentary/reality tbh show on proceedings in a US civil trial. One of the jurors isn’t an actor. Beautifully executed with a sublime conclusion. Brilliant TV.

.. I get that that’s a mindset a good 15 years out of date. I understand that money is a thing, and in the age of LLMs, that “juicy content“ is basically oil. But fucking hell, still makes me sad. 🤷 Back to federating all of the things.

The Reddit api news makes me sad. I got into webdev just as Web 2.0 hit, massively driven by user generated content. It felt like a nice implicit contract, we’ll help build your shiny webapp, provide you juicy content, just let us do what we want with the data…

Tetris Reddit really delivered today - https://reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/13ogz6r/my_boyfriends_version_of_foreplay_is_tetris/

Great shout, on playing with some of the ones I just used, looks like indexing lags so you don’t get the immediacy of a fully formed feature. I wonder how quickly a new post gets indexed.

Oh wow, hashtags aren’t a thing here yet…?

Outside of that, here’s a bunch of hashtags to describe some things I might blather about: #running #jazzguitar #football (#ncfc) #mma #films (#letterboxd) #chiptune #boardgames #tv #zettelkasten #roamresearch #quantifiedself #podcasts #videogames (#slaythespire #tetris)

Given I seem to be gaining some followers here, here’s my #introduction pasted from mastodon: I work as a Principal Software Engineer, mostly in web but consider myself a generalist. Really interested in systems and the way people interact in and between teams building software.